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LL that is, created. If sin has any pretence of existence, is responsible therefor; but there is no reality in sin, for can no more behold it, or acknowledge it, than the sun can coexist with darkness.

To build the individual spiritual sense, conscious of only health, holiness, and Heaven, on the foundations of an Eternal Mind, which is conscious of sickness, sin, and death, is a moral impossibility; for “other foundation can no man lay than that is laid” (1 iii. 11). The nearer we approximate to such a Mind, even if it were (or could be), the more real those mind-pictures would become to us; until the hope of ever eluding their dread presence must yield to despair, and the haunting sense of evil forever accompany our being.

Mortals may climb the smooth glaciers, leap the dark fissures, scale the treacherous ice, and stand on the summit of Mont Blanc; but they can never turn back what Deity knoweth, nor escape from identification with what dwelleth in the Eternal Mind.